Digital Ethics

Since the launch of applications such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, generative artificial intelligence has been controversial as a tool for creating artwork. While some have presented longtermist worries about ...

The case adds to a growing number of wrongful facial recognition arrests.

We show that content on the web is often translated into many languages, and the low quality of these multi-way translations indicates they were likely created using Machine Translation (MT). Multi-way parallel, machine generated content not only dominates the translations in lower resource languages; it also constitutes a large fraction of the total web content in those languages. We also find evidence of a selection bias in the type of content which is translated into many languages, consistent with low quality English content being translated en masse into many lower resource languages, via MT. Our work raises serious concerns about training models such as multilingual large language models on both monolingual and bilingual data scraped from the web.

With the rise of AI-generated modelling agencies and no copyright protections, many models – like Nassia Matsa – are discovering that they don’t have the rights to their own bodies

One Indigenous artist said the process of using their art to train AI models that competes with them for work is a ‘very colonial mindset’.

The long read: From the generic hipster cafe to the ‘Instagram wall’, the internet has pushed us towards a kind of global ubiquity – and this phenomenon is only going to intensify

Mahindra Racing introduced, then quickly retracted, its use of a fake female motorsports reporter.

Simply instructing ChatGPT to repeat the word "poem" endlessly forced the program to cough up whole sections of text copied from its training data, breaking the program's guardrails.

Outlogic, formerly known as X-Mode Social, just became the first US-based data broker banned from selling precise location data of American citizens by the FTC.

AI is swallowing art — high and low — whole. Plus: a shocking turn in a Nazi-looting case and challenging gender in dance, in our weekly arts newsletter

Chat logs sent to 404 Media show the chatbot automatically denying at least one applicant on certain criteria.

We need new labor standards in the artificial intelligence supply chain, mirroring changes in the textile industry

The pushback against ubiquitous surveillance and targeted deepfaking has begun—but regulation may fail to keep up with AI advances.

AI, emotion recognition, and Darwin

I tested six leading AI image generators to see how they handle outrageous requests.

Adversarial algorithms can systematically probe large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 for weaknesses that can make them misbehave.

Cybersecurity experts are warning of serious data privacy risks after a Vancouver rape crisis centre told clients and donors a computer server containing their sensitive personal information and banking details was stolen from its office last month.

Legal scholar Seán O’Connor writes on the importance of the New York Times’ recent lawsuit filed in federal court against OpenAI and Microsoft Corp. claiming that the AI companies are using their works without permission.

The discussion on Responsible AI (#RAI) has traditionally focused on fairness, non-bias, explainability, and security, while the critical role and potential of…

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Artificial Intelligence systems start with data, and policy should too, says Eryk Salvaggio.

To understand the potential for machine learning to transform medicine, we must go back to the controversial origins of data use in healthcare

ChatGPT users say that the bot is becoming more difficult to work with.

Meta’s decision to charge users for an ad-free experience still requires that people have their information collected.

A full of spectrum of infringment

And what we should do about it.

Under the terms of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, the pharmacy chain will be barred from using the technology as a surveillance tool for five years.

To foster a globally inclusive approach, the UN Secretary-General has convened a multi-stakeholder High-level Advisory Body on AI to undertake analysis and advance recommendations for the international governance of AI.